Morello Style
28th August 2003, 16:06
Though I did introduce myself over in the lounge, I think this will be a far better arena for you to get to know me.
As a 16 year old in suburban America, my chances for rebel action are limited. So to satisfy that urge for the radical, I take it out on the insitution that is least likely to bring about change - the school system.
At every possible moment I turn essays and projects into propaganda. It's acutally quite fun :D .
So for this summer project in AP United States History, I decided to take the essay prompt and turn it into an attack on NAFTA and the opressive regime in Mexico. I do admit, the RATM dvd "The Battle of Mexico City" was my direct inspiration.
So if you have a small amount of time (It's only two 'Word' pages), please take the time to read my thoughts on why Americans still veiw themselves as a "beacon to mankind." And please, go don't stop after the first paragraph. The introduction and conclusion are still cheesy high school stuff. It had to go somwhere.
The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony said that their town would become as a city upon a hill and a beacon to mankind. What John Winthrop meant by this statement is that the colony would become a shining example for the entire world to see. Sadly, most Americans today still believe that their nation is still a beacon to mankind that the whole world should model after.
The first person of this statement is the normal, working class American. Most of them get up every morning and drive to their cubicle style job in their brand new SUV, come home and then sit in front of their televisions and watch a 24-hour news channel until they fall asleep. Most citizens today are firm believers in the American Way and have no doubt that we are the grandest nation in the world. They sit pleasantly in their perfectly uniform little environments and watch the world go by. Most of them have no knowledge of our nations politics outside the size of the explosion (in kilograms!) we use to kill other people on the opposite side of our planet. What most of them just know is that everything is going to be all right with our leaders and way of life leading the world in the best possible direction. What most of them do not know is that their SUV is helping make the hole in the ozone layer three times the size of Europe, and the corporation they work for is spreading oppression into foreign countries with an iron fist. And while they watch our wondrous military actions in a third world country, their fair and balanced news somehow misses the fact that corporate puppets have high-jacked the government, raining down terror from the skies all to help the rich. The problem with the American dream is that it has become just that, a dream. The docile middle class sleeps away as the ones who hold the power run rampant. Which brings us to the second section of America.
The multi-national corporations, mass media networks and corporate run government all believe that our nation should influence the rest of the world, because they are the ones that profit from it. The spread of their ideals (a.k.a. control everything in sight) is of great benefit to them. For example, we can look at the North American Free Trade Agreement and its entrance into Mexico, something viscously advocated by our domestic government. To enter NAFTA, the oppressive government at the time in 1994 re-wrote Article 27 of their constitution guaranteeing land distribution to the poor farmers. Undoing what had been won in the Mexican revolution of old, the lands that would have gone to the poor could now be auctioned off to the highest bidding multi-national corporation, many hailing from the good old USA. When the peasants revolted against this action, the government launched a terror campaign against the peasants with the 214 million dollars they had received in arms from the United States government. With our wonderful media keeping the average American person completely in the dark about the matter even occurring, one just has to marvel at how the three help each other out and work together to imprint their agenda on the rest of the world.
When Whinthrop made his statement about the Bay Colony, he put forth to the world that he would create a model society and system. Most Americans today are either to devoid of knowledge or too corrupt in practice to say anything to the contrary about our current status. We simply sit back and let our corrupt beacon plague the rest of mankind.
As a 16 year old in suburban America, my chances for rebel action are limited. So to satisfy that urge for the radical, I take it out on the insitution that is least likely to bring about change - the school system.
At every possible moment I turn essays and projects into propaganda. It's acutally quite fun :D .
So for this summer project in AP United States History, I decided to take the essay prompt and turn it into an attack on NAFTA and the opressive regime in Mexico. I do admit, the RATM dvd "The Battle of Mexico City" was my direct inspiration.
So if you have a small amount of time (It's only two 'Word' pages), please take the time to read my thoughts on why Americans still veiw themselves as a "beacon to mankind." And please, go don't stop after the first paragraph. The introduction and conclusion are still cheesy high school stuff. It had to go somwhere.
The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony said that their town would become as a city upon a hill and a beacon to mankind. What John Winthrop meant by this statement is that the colony would become a shining example for the entire world to see. Sadly, most Americans today still believe that their nation is still a beacon to mankind that the whole world should model after.
The first person of this statement is the normal, working class American. Most of them get up every morning and drive to their cubicle style job in their brand new SUV, come home and then sit in front of their televisions and watch a 24-hour news channel until they fall asleep. Most citizens today are firm believers in the American Way and have no doubt that we are the grandest nation in the world. They sit pleasantly in their perfectly uniform little environments and watch the world go by. Most of them have no knowledge of our nations politics outside the size of the explosion (in kilograms!) we use to kill other people on the opposite side of our planet. What most of them just know is that everything is going to be all right with our leaders and way of life leading the world in the best possible direction. What most of them do not know is that their SUV is helping make the hole in the ozone layer three times the size of Europe, and the corporation they work for is spreading oppression into foreign countries with an iron fist. And while they watch our wondrous military actions in a third world country, their fair and balanced news somehow misses the fact that corporate puppets have high-jacked the government, raining down terror from the skies all to help the rich. The problem with the American dream is that it has become just that, a dream. The docile middle class sleeps away as the ones who hold the power run rampant. Which brings us to the second section of America.
The multi-national corporations, mass media networks and corporate run government all believe that our nation should influence the rest of the world, because they are the ones that profit from it. The spread of their ideals (a.k.a. control everything in sight) is of great benefit to them. For example, we can look at the North American Free Trade Agreement and its entrance into Mexico, something viscously advocated by our domestic government. To enter NAFTA, the oppressive government at the time in 1994 re-wrote Article 27 of their constitution guaranteeing land distribution to the poor farmers. Undoing what had been won in the Mexican revolution of old, the lands that would have gone to the poor could now be auctioned off to the highest bidding multi-national corporation, many hailing from the good old USA. When the peasants revolted against this action, the government launched a terror campaign against the peasants with the 214 million dollars they had received in arms from the United States government. With our wonderful media keeping the average American person completely in the dark about the matter even occurring, one just has to marvel at how the three help each other out and work together to imprint their agenda on the rest of the world.
When Whinthrop made his statement about the Bay Colony, he put forth to the world that he would create a model society and system. Most Americans today are either to devoid of knowledge or too corrupt in practice to say anything to the contrary about our current status. We simply sit back and let our corrupt beacon plague the rest of mankind.